- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that presses and scorches designs into leather garment parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts roll-turning motor and roll heater.
* Moves handle of variable electric resistor to adjust heating of upper roll to specified temperature.
* Turns wing nuts to adjust pressure between rolls and feeds garment parts between rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine, consisting of pressing roll and ironing shoe, that shapes and smooths knitted garments. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses control lever to revolve roll and to engage ironing shoe with revolving roll while machine is heating.
* Adjusts rheostat to heat ironing shoe and to maintain specified temperature.
* Disengages heating ironing shoe from roll, stops roll, and spreads garment on roll.
* Starts roll and reengages ironing shoe to press garment.
* Removes pressed garment from machine.
* May be designated according to garment or garment part pressed as cuff presser.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends calender machine that imparts luster and finish simultaneously to several strands (10-50) of narrow fabrics, such as tape and ribbon. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads ends around rollers of machine and starts strands into cans, or ties ends to ends in machine.
* Starts machine and observes strands of fabric entering machine to detect tangled or twisted fabric.
* Stops machine and straightens fabric.
* May tend machine equipped with spray (mist) attachment that dampens fabric before fabric enters rollers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that turns pillowcases right-side-out and stretches material to remove wrinkles. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns dials to adjust turner arms according to width of pillowcases and to adjust speed and throw of discharge mechanism.
* Positions pillowcase on arms and depresses pedal to activate mechanism that inverts pillowcase and discharges article onto rack.
* May turn pillowcases by hand or using turning stand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that fold and press pleats into materials, such as cloth, paper, plastic, or parchment. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns thumbscrews or levers to adjust pleating knife according to width specified for pleats and for distance specified between pleats, and to adjust temperature of pressing rollers.
* Places roll of material on rod at entry end of machine and draws end of fabric through guides, pleating knife, and between heated pressing rollers.
* Laps end of fabric around takeup roll or guides end into box.
* Starts machine and observes pleating for conformance to specifications.
* May thread material between layers of paper to prevent heated rollers from scorching material.
* May tend machine that attaches waxed thread to edges of material to hold pleats in fabric.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers unemployment insurance program. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets policies, rules, and regulations under authority of governing commission and federal and state legislation.
* Plans and coordinates staff activities, such as maintenance of records of employer contributions, employee wages, benefit payment, administrative expenditures, and related matters.
* Directs investigations of employer liability, payroll records, and employee coverage.
* Prepares and releases operating reports.
* Attends conferences with government officials, employers, labor leaders, and other parties to promote support for program objectives.
* Recommends changes in legislation affecting program.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends kettle that refines grease according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves lever to admit grease into kettle and opens valve to admit steam into grease to control boiling.
* Draws off sample of grease and inspects it for clarity.
* Starts pump to add required amounts of acid to kettle and boils grease with acid until grease reaches specified clarity.
* Closes steam valve and allows water and impurities to settle to bottom of kettle.
* Opens valve to drain off water and impurities.
* Closes drain valve, opens steam valve, and starts pump to fill kettle with water.
* Boils mixture for specified amount of time to wash out acid and remaining impurities.
* Opens drain valve to drain off water and impurities.
* Pumps grease to storage tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses cloth buffing wheels after forming to prepare buffing wheels for sewing. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses lever to start movement of machine bed toward and away from heated press.
* Removes and replaces buffing wheels on bed of machine as bed moves forward.
* Moves lever attached to ratchet wheel to adjust space between bed and press to accommodate wheels of different sizes.
* May tend press to insert cardboard or wood cores in buffing wheels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends roller machine that smooths or glazes surface or accentuates natural grain of leather. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions leather on bed of machine and depresses pedal to lower roller onto leather.
* Starts machine to move roller over leather.
* Shifts position of leather under roller to impart specified finish to entire surface.
* Pulls finished leather from machine table and stacks leather on cart.
* May be designated according to section of hide rolled as back roller; belly roller; crop roller; according to condition of leather rolled as dry roller; retanned-leather roller; wet roller; or according to type of machine tended as glazing-machine operator; graining-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends roller machine that smooths or glazes surface or accentuates natural grain of leather. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions leather on bed of machine and depresses pedal to lower roller onto leather.
* Starts machine to move roller over leather.
* Shifts position of leather under roller to impart specified finish to entire surface.
* Pulls finished leather from machine table and stacks leather on cart.
* May be designated according to section of hide rolled as back roller; belly roller; crop roller; according to condition of leather rolled as dry roller; retanned-leather roller; wet roller; or according to type of machine tended as glazing-machine operator; graining-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
